Is China's Zodiac Spring Festival or beginning of spring's Zodiac beginning of spring or Spring Festival?

At present, it is calculated from the Spring Festival, with New Year's Eve as the dividing point, that is, the method of calculating the zodiac from the Lunar New Year (the first day of the lunar new year) appeared relatively late, and the earliest record appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty. Now many people agree with this. Folklore experts believe that the zodiac should not be calculated according to the 24 solar terms. After all, the Spring Festival is the beginning of the Lunar New Year, and it is also the beginning of the Lunar New Year, so the zodiac naturally starts from the first day of the first month.

The method of taking beginning of spring as the standard of the zodiac began in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. At present, folklores such as the Huangli calendar, traditional numerology and divination all use "beginning of spring" as the basis for calculating the zodiac.

Most young parents don't know that the zodiac is counted from beginning of spring, but they all think that it should be counted from the Spring Festival. Interestingly, if we count from the Spring Festival, there will be some "no spring" years and some "second spring" years.